Andrena ampla Warncke, 1967

Cornalba, Maurizio, Quaranta, Marino, Selis, Marco, Flaminio, Simone, Gamba, Sirio, Mei, Maurizio, Bonifacino, Marco, Cappellari, Andree, Catania, Roberto, Niolu, Pietro, Tempesti, Stefano & Biella, Paolo, 2024, Exploring the hidden riches: Recent remarkable faunistic records and range extensions in the bee fauna of Italy (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Anthophila), Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. 116014-116014 : 116014

Andrena ampla Warncke, 1967

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Sirio Gamba; sex: 1 female; occurrenceID: 43B89F36-F147-5E6B-A081-0A81F145BCEB; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria; county: Imperia; municipality: Pigna; verbatimElevation: 1592 m; verbatimLatitude: 43.9925; verbatimLongitude: 7.6738; Identification: identifiedBy: Maurizio Cornalba, Paolo Biella; Event: eventDate: 2022-06-02; eventRemarks: on Saxifraga callosa; Record Level: collectionCode: SGC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Christophe Praz, Dimitri Bénon; sex: 1 female; occurrenceID: 35DF6A0B-394E-555E-8575-FE315571E544; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Piemonte; county: Torino; municipality: Cesana Torinese; verbatimLatitude: 44.95001; verbatimLongitude: 6.80161; Identification: identifiedBy: Christophe Praz; Event: eventDate: 2022-07-07; Record Level: collectionCode: CPC

Notes

The record from Piemonte was communicated to us by Christophe Praz. A. ampla had been previously reported in Italy only from Valle d’Aosta ( Schmid-Egger 2005). The present records are the first from Liguria and Piemonte. They suggest that A. ampla may occur all along the Italian side of the Southwestern Alps. The Ligurian specimen has been confirmed by DNA barcoding: match with reference sequences between 100% and 98.86% (mean: 99.81%).